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1815

1815: Insurrection aboard the Belle, bound for Saint John (voyage 34001)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Saint John in 1815, the people aboard the Belle rose against the crew. They had been taken at Ambriz.

The record gives the numbers as: 501 people were embarked; 501 were landed.

Captain: Brian, François. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “vice-Admiralty Court, Antigua, condemned.”

Resistance is recorded only where a surviving document mentions it. The 571 such acts in the record are a floor. Silence in that column is silence in the archive. It says nothing about calm on the ship.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 34001